What's disconcerting is how he, like I've heard from Terry O'Quinn in LOST interviews, has given up on completely delving into and investing in their character's inner-workings and resigned to being a 'puppet' for the writers and directors.

What makes this novel both so brave and so disconcerting is the transfer of the primordial and the visceral into an otherwise clear-cut adult landscape, but what exactly might be done about this subterranean realm of experience remains enigmatic; this is a book interested in the clash of fierce forces, not in their serene synthesis or their harmonious resolution.